Chemistry: A European Journal 2012-08-06

Borophosphonate cages: easily accessible and constitutionally dynamic heterocubane scaffolds.

Justus Tönnemann, Rosario Scopelliti, Konstantin O Zhurov, Laure Menin, Stefanie Dehnen, Kay Severin

Index: Chemistry 18(32) , 9939-45, (2012)

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Abstract

A versatile and experimentally facile procedure for the synthesis of borophosphonate cages of the general formula [tBuPO(3)BR'](4) is described. The method involves heating of tert-butylphosphonic acid with a boronic acid in toluene to give borophosphonates in [4+4] condensation reactions. The products display a heterocubane structure with bent P-O-B bridges as evidenced by crystallographic analyses. Scrambling experiments show that the borophosphonate cages are constitutionally dynamic scaffolds with exchange reactions occurring on the hour time scale at room temperature. The cages can be decorated with reactive groups such as aldehydes. Our results demonstrate that borophosphonate cages are interesting building blocks for dynamic covalent chemistry.Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

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